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Brazil’s armed forces are renewing their long-running push to receive a larger share of the federal budget, arguing that the rapidly deteriorating global security environment has made decades of underinvestment untenable.

Inside the government and in Congress, Defense Ministry officials have seized upon what experts describe as a new global arms race, driven by wars in Europe, mounting tensions between the US and China and, more recently, direct military action in South America...

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